11. Play slowly several minor melodies free from modulations and require the student to notate.
The teacher should now play melodies in which are transitions from major to parallel minor and vice versa. Great familiarity with the normal intervals is necessary before studying altered intervals. It is hoped that the major seventh may now be properly intonated.
The student may experience considerable difficulty with the following group, in which case it is advisable to postpone this group until the ear is more thoroughly trained. The object of its following the normal intervals is to fix firmly the fundamental and all intervals by comparison with this fundamental.
GROUP III.
ALTERED INTERVALS.
1. The chromatic scale:—
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In syllabicating the chromatic scale or any of the altered intervals, the syllable ah may be used on each tone. To those wishing to adhere to the Italian syllables, the tonic sol-fa syllables, invented by Miss Sarah Ann Glover, may be used which are as follows: ascending chromatic scale—doh, de, ray, re, me, fah, fe, soh, se, lah, le, te, doh; descending chromatic scale—doh, te, ta, lah, la, soh, sa, fah, me, ma, ray, ra, doh. Miss Glover changed the spelling of the Italian syllables to coincide with the English pronunciation. She also changed the subtonic from si to te.